The move represents an ambitious new frontier in the application of the technique, which is already prescribed on the NHS to treat depression and is gaining traction in schools to help pupils concentrate and to regulate their emotional responses.
The latest scheme is personalisation: that may be an ingenious way of letting pupils concentrate on what they are good at or it may simply add a new layer of complication to a system that is already unworkably barnacled.The new academies may also prove to be gimmicks.
She added that the standardised approach meant pupils only concentrated on a handful of books which would help them get better marks in the tests - rather than read more widely.
Glenalmond College, another private school in Perthshire, last month introduced a permanent ban on mobile phones, after a trial showed it helped pupils to concentrate better.
It is nonsense to say, as was quoted in the Warwick report, that teachers ignored the academic ability of black pupils, only concentrating on their behaviour.
The pupils the teachers concentrated on and earmarked for university were mostly white middle-class students, he says.
New reforms to exam league tables would reward schools for pushing every pupil rather than concentrating on pupils on the C/D grade borderlinem.
Of the teachers who thought the timetabled day was too long, many said it caused tiredness among pupils (93%), damaged pupils' ability to concentrate (87%) and caused disruptive behaviour (67%).
Andreas Schleicher, the OECD's director for education and skills, said the fact that 46% of disadvantaged pupils in England were concentrated in schools where they are in the majority was a barrier to social mobility, along with pupil behaviour.
Our experience across a range of schools and further education colleges strongly suggests that this effect is disproportionately concentrated on pupils from BME and disadvantaged backgrounds.
Other respondents described the effect of overcrowding at home, no space to do homework and poor sleep patterns, which left pupils struggling to concentrate and falling asleep in lessons.
